Tootfinder

Sources: Epic has delayed the release of an upcoming game, instructing developers to implement an "AI first" production model with "no more hand-written code" (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

I wrote a lot of code this week and just like all the code I've written in the past 45 years I did not use AI or any LLMs to do so.

Dear friends, you will remember that I have written often about my friend Bara'a in #Gaza. She is a young widow. Her two daughters were killed when their house was bombed. Her surviving child, Ibrahim, who is five, has suffered from repeated pneumonia this year. Because of medical bills they are living mainly on lentils and rice, which means he is not getting enough vitamins to rebuild his immune…

Help us save my family in Gaza from hunger and killing.
Help us save my family in Gaza from hunger and killing.

Iwo's Rigor Pack
https://www.iwoszapar.com/tools/rigor-pack

Had an #acting #coaching client try to tell the other character they loved them, but using lines as written, on the face of them, do not mention love. That take revealed the fear their character was feeling, made the peril more real. Revelation through counterpoint.

When I was first learning to write,
my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror.
Being left-handed, I was imitating the hand strokes of my right-handed teachers instead of reversing their strokes to replicate the letters.
I gradually got the hang of writing in the correct direction, but it still feels natural for me to mirror-write.
I have a mirror-written childhood diary. Leonardo da Vinci, another lefty, did that too

Why Am I Left-Handed? | Quanta Magazine
An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.

This guy is such a liar. He announced a single-stair policy—it was fake. He announced new eviction defense funds—they'd been approved months before. Lurie even told me he had written "gullible" on the ceiling, but I looked and it wasn't there.
https://sfstandard.com/…

Lurie trumpeted a major housing win. YIMBYs say it’s much ado about nothing
The mayor said the city would modify staircase requirements in new apartment buildings ahead of the implementation of any actual code or policy.

Academic idea of an open access conference:
You have to pay £££ to attend online or in-person, even if you are one of the speakers (actually you'll often have to pay more then), and often can only talk if you travel to it in-person (even if that means a transatlantic flight, etc), and have to pay for your own travel and accommodation. You can however read a PDF about a talk for free. The PDF will have been written before the event started.
What it should mean:
Speakers …

A windfall tax on cosy crime novels written by celebrities, sounds like a decent policy
https://time.com/article/2026/08/12/count-binface-interview-nigel-farage-british-politics-clacton-byelection/

Introducing Count Binface, Britain's Political Satirist Who Is Standing Against Nigel Farage
Satirical candidates are a long-standing tradition in British politics, but few have made as much of an impression as Count Binface. TIME speaks to the novelty candidate ahead of the Clacton by-election.

My favorite 20 albums blog post will likely have to wait until at least the weekend of December 5, as I'm waiting for December 3 and 4 for the release of three records, all of which I'm pretty sure are gonna be on the list. It should be up fairly soon after that, on that weekend. I'll have the rest written by then and just finish those last couple blurbs after the records come out that Thursday and Friday 🙄😂

Context:
The putrid secretion of sewage goo known as Vox Day has published an AI-written book claiming to prove that evolution is mathematically impossible.
Actual biologists are sweeping the floor with him.
https://youtu.be/AqC1ZM4icms

The unique selling point of the #blockchain in public lore is, that you can not change anything once it is written to the blockchain. But of course you can.
https://www.

Ravencoin, a blockchain built from Bitcoin’s code, could roll back four days of transactions
Two mining pools controlling most of Ravencoin’s hashpower are building a replacement chain from before Friday’s first invalid block, putting deposits, withdrawals and payments made since then at risk of reversal.

Using #llm to OCR is...interesting. I've been trying it on an old hand written card; and it does very well on stuff I can only just about read; but the mistakes are way more subtle than trad OCR; e.g. one misread a 'standard 6' rack' as a 'standard 19" rack' (the other said '61 rack' which is more obviously wrong). The same one also turned 'M/coil mike'…

As a concrete example, a colleague sent me a Claude generated change Friday, in this change he was introducing a feature flag.
That meant changing some tests I’d written previously. And Claude’s “solution” was to… mock the whole feature flagging library?
What crazy bizarre approach is that, when you can just call the method to temporarily override a flag value. A method I was *already using* in that very same test class.
It’s such banal BS being wrong that makes me unimpres…

The Zig journey continues, things get a bit cleaner and we're now parsing the primary partition entries in the MBR. Very nice...
#programming #zig

Preplay: The Courtroom in the Wings
The news of my removal from my own show came from the producer. I had obtained the rights, signed us to a first-class theatrical option, and written the book and lyrics, all of it inside the year the rights contract granted to us....
https://bolesblogs.com/20…

Food & Feed Omnibus, co-written by the pesticide lobby https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/food-feed-omnibus-co-written-pesticide-lobby
Traced: How pesticide industry demands made their way into Omnibus X

Food & Feed Omnibus, co-written by the pesticide lobby | Corporate Europe Observatory
The pesticide lobby’s dirty fingers are all over the EU's Food & Feed Omnibus. Omnibus X is paving the way for the dismantling of EU pesticide regulations by allowing harmful pesticides to remain in use.

This is one of three #books I acquired yesterday. The other two are still in the car, I'm in my nightie and it's raining, so they're staying put for now 😄
The Constant Gardener by le Carré, The Golden Hours by Louisa Young and Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett.
I'm particularly looking fwd to TGH, the next in The Cazalet Chronicles, written by EJH's niece. It…

old news but holy shit https://micahflee.com/how-the-knock-off-signal-app-used-by-trump-officials-got-hacked-in-20-minutes/

Amazingly, it's not (quite) sold out — but I don't think I can manage a short-notice trip to Canada. I adore "Slings and Arrows" though. What a night this is sure to be.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/toronto/arti

SLINGS & ARROWS Prequel THE AMATEURS to Reunite Original Cast in Stratford
Original cast members of Slings & Arrows, including Paul Gross, Martha Burns, and Bob Martin, will reunite in Stratford for a staged reading of The Amateurs, a new TV comedy prequel written by the original show's writing team.

NFL World Says Dak Prescott is Top-2 NFC Quarterback https://insidethestar.com/nfl-world-says-dak-prescott-is-top-2-nfc-quarterback

Also from Codeberg:
"You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as *Claude*, *OpenAI Codex*).
Such projects having an unclear copyright status and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code."

Merge pull request 'Proposal Assembly 2026: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions' (#1253) from gedankenstuecke/org:20260629-llm-proposal into main · 71149c7fc9
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Editors are facing an influx of AI-written article pitches, sometimes from admitted AI agents and sometimes from imposters, feeding distrust and confusion (Tom Zeller Jr/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/fake-caroline-w…

Fake Caroline.
Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now?

My head explodes every time I need to deal with dynamic langs or at least with the code written by other people
I'm automatically trying to cover all edge cases and without specifying input types it gets silly

from my link log —
Fuzzing Sequoia-PGP.
https://blog.hackeriet.no/fuzzing-sequoia/
saved 2020-06-03 https://dotat.at/:/PJ56H.html

I’ve written before about the felony murder doctrine.
Read more 👉 #DeathPenalty #JusticeSystem

One More Reason the Death Penalty Needs to Go – Bob Mueller
A recent felony murder case in Alabama shows one more reason the death penalty needs to go—and why the justice system needs a closer look.

I did not intend to spend several hours today making 3 releases full of new features to WaveLogGoat, but I did. One of them is a workaround for a regression in wavelog, but the rest are pure features!

• It now scales reported power by a max power setting. Defaults to 100 (100W) since percent equals watts on most shack rigs. If you have a 100W rig feeding a 500W dial-a-watt amp, set max powe…

I rediscovered an old archive of my wiki, which used OddMuse, a wiki engine written in Perl and developed by @… (the good old time)
So I decided to write a Python converter to bring it back to life. I’ll probably discover that 80% of the content is useless, but the remaining 20% might still be worth preserving.
The converter is crappy but it works…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

mailed out three mixtapes and a couple tape players, all local
#mixtape #cassette #cassettetape

You dont like the default color palett of #ggplot? You can change it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10504724/change-the-default-colour-palette-in-ggplot

rustkyll, a fast, drop-in replacement for #Jekyll, written in #Rust
https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/rustkyll

I've written a wee blog post about the parlous state of #LocalDemocracy in #Scotland. I've also written to the Dear Leader, John #Swinney, in a slightly more diplomatic tone.

Of size, and governance, revisited
Malta has sixty eight local government regions; Luxembourg one hundred and two; Iceland sixty one; Norway, with a population comparable to our own, three hundred and seventy two. The average number of inhabitants of a municipality across the whole of the EU is 22,455. Thus the average Scottish local authority has more than six times the population of the average European equivalent, and more than one hundred times the population of one in Czechia. Czechia is not really an outlier; France, with …

ladies, gentlemen, the people non-comforming to societal categories, i think i found the great filter that answers the fermi paradox

💻 Written in #Rust, #Apache2 licensed, runs on #Linux and #macOS via native installer or

Just Trying to Figure Out My Job by vlogbrothers
The Hank Green AI Policy
1. No portion of any script will be written, edited, or outlined by an LLM.
2. The thesis of a video will always originate with a human.
3. No image or music in a video will be generated by AI. If something is accidentally included, best efforts will be made to remove it.

AI agents are moving online course cheating beyond chatbot-written essays via commands like "log in and complete my quiz"; major chatbots did not refuse prompts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

A.I. Agents Are Taking Entire Online Courses for Cheating Students
As colleges and students embrace virtual classes, the ease of A.I. cheating is raising questions about the value of an online degree.

#Upcoming “Viva Negativa! The New Blockaders: The Noise of Art and Nothing” by Nick Soulsby is the most extensive consideration given to everything from their groundbreaking 1982 LP, “Changez les Blockeurs” to their most recent work. Limited to 400 copies, the book is 416 pages and the deluxe edition comes with a CD/DVD. Available via

Viva Negativa! The New Blockaders: The Noise of Art and Nothing. By Nick Soulsby - PC Press
The book presents the story of The New Blockaders' work from the groundbreaking 1982 LP Changez Les Blockeurs to their most recent Antibox. Forensically detailed and beautifully written by Nick Soulsby, this represents his latest infatuation after groundbreaking books on Coil, Lydia Lunch, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Swans and Centre Iberico. Limited to 400 copies, this beautiful volume is 416 pages, with full-colour printing throughout, on 130gsm art silk paper, board cover 350gsm silk board, featur…

If anybody fancies being a tester for an Android app, I've written a simple little app which reminds you of your bin schedules - which bins need putting out on which evening. If you'd like to test it, please drop me a note at support@binnight.co.uk - details here: https://www.binnight.co.uk/early-access/…

I bought a case of Rice Krispie Treats on a whim and now I bring some to gaming night.
To limit how many I eat, I wrote a note on each so I could only eat it if that event happened.
We found a stirge nest as second level characters. I ate all the Treats.

@… As opposed to a bunch of open source code written by humans? So long as the software gets the job done, does the difference matter to the end user?
That said, plenty of people still use commercial software even when mature open source equivalents have been available for years (e.g., MS Office) so maybe this sort of thing won't kill the likes of A…

I enjoyed reading 'Career Paths - Stories of Metadata Librarians' - DLF https://www.diglib.org/career-paths-stories-of-metadata-librarians/

Career Paths - Stories of Metadata Librarians - DLF
This post was written by members of the DLF Assessment Interest Group’s (AIG) Metadata Working Group (MWG). Learn more about the Assessment Interest Group. It was authored by: Hannah Tarver (University of North Texas), hannah.tarver[at]unt.edu Xiaoli Ma (University of Florida), xiaolima[at]ufl.edu Stasha Gardasevic (University of Hawaii at Manoa), gardasev[at]hawaii.edu Challen Wright (University of Nevada, Reno), Read More

Ooh, found my dad's slide rule; I guess I have to learn how to use it now!
#retrocomputing

on a newly transferred robert hunter tape from 1997, he announces that his solo tune "the song remains" was the final garcia/hunter collaboration, guitar part written by garcia in '78 & finished by hunter in '97. https://archive.org/details/rh1997-09…

Robert Hunter Live at Riviera Theater on 1997-09-28
Robert HunterRiviera TheaterChicago, ILSeptember 28, 1997Source:SBD > DAT > Fostex D-5 > Tascam DA-3000 > WAV16/48 > Izotope RX Advanced > xAct > Flac 16/48DAT transfer by mgoldeyMastering by Brian Miksis September 2026Notes:- Dropout in Mason's Children- Hunter announces the...

#Minnesota : Park Rapids, Nemeth Art Center. Outstanding group art exhibition; see it if you can! ✔️
https://www.mplsart.com/written/2026/07/not-forgotten-c…

Not Forgotten: Contemporary Art with Rural Roots

Curator Aaron Spangler brings together five artists with rural roots for an exhibition on place, identity, and storytelling at Park Rapids' Nemeth Art Center.

Just finished the very excellent "The Many Assassinations of Samir, Seller of Dreams" written by Daniel Nayeri with occasional illustrations by Daniel Miyares. It's rich with silk road culture and fantastical coincidences, and took the dread created by the initial foreshadowing and did something very clever with it at the end. I even appreciated its treatment of romance by the end of the book. Just in general super enjoyable to read for a lot of different reasons.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

OK, I was reluctant to read “yet another” article on this whole foofraw, but this is very well written and goes into a lot of solid detail as to what the fuck is wrong with “X” (aka deadTwitter) still as well as the “how we got here”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w/post/3mxrx7tfuwc2y

Here are several screenshots of Siri interacting with OmniFocus on an iPhone:
1. Siri using Visual Intelligence to scan a hand-written list from a sheet of paper and add the remaining items to OmniFocus.
2. Siri reviewing the remaining tasks in OmniFocus that need to get done today, and suggesting some other high priority tasks to consider.
3. Siri adding some book club suggestions to the note on an OmniFocus task.
4. Siri marking complete the tasks that are currently selected in OmniFocus.

I think it is very important that we make arguments that actually make sense and take the existing technology into account, even if that develops quickly.
On the other hand, it's also a cat-and-mouse game because when that ethics policy was written, there were no local models capable of helping with reviews and it takes long to make such policies (design by committee!). The arXiv argument was there all the way, though.

Edit: 5 minutes later and it already arrived in my mailbox. Thanks a lot!
I would like to read this paper:
Hayes, J. R. (2004). Herbert A. Simon: 1916 to 2001: 1916 to 2001. Written Communication, 21(3), 236-241. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741088304266179
But my university does…

@… hello! sorry to bother you! i noticed you are using AI to code some of your software now. i assume you are simply unaware, so let me fill you in: a large portion of the fediverse is very much against AI, and i would suggest undoing AI commits, adding a "NO AI" policy, and trying to recruit more HUMAN contributors. even if you aren't concerned with the impact of ai (which you should be), the code it makes us poorly written and unsustainable, even when "cleaned up"

@… hello! sorry to bother you! i noticed you are using AI to code some of your software now. i assume you are simply unaware, so let me fill you in: a large portion of the fediverse is very much against AI, and i would suggest undoing AI commits, adding a "NO AI" policy, and trying to recruit more HUMAN contributors. even if you aren't concerned with the impact of ai (which you should be), the code it makes us poorly written and unsustainable, even when "cleaned up"

humanizer
"A 12B model that rewrites AI-written drafts (emails, essays, reports, forum posts; English and Chinese) so they read like a person wrote them. It is trained to keep every number, unit, date, name and quote and to add nothing, and it runs locally."
#ai #opensource

The state of these fuckers, really.

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They point out his leadership in commissioning work from them that led to setting of Greater Manchester’s ambitious, Paris-compliant carbon budget. They say that allowing more oil extraction would betray that…

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They p…

Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general cleared a major hurdle this week
after two Republican senators who had raised concerns agreed to back him.
Blanche gave written assurances that a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” designed to pay Trump allies would not be resurrected,
and that a settlement between Trump and the Internal Revenue Service only gave the president retroactive immunity from audits rather than perpetual protection.
The Senate Judiciary Com…

“Department of Injustice”: Norm Eisen on Todd Blanche AG Nom, Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case
Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general cleared a major hurdle this week after two Republican senators who had raised concerns agreed to back him. Blanche gave written assurances that a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” designed to pay Trump allies would not be resurrected, and that a settlement between Trump and the Internal Revenue Service only gave the president retroactive immunity from audits rather than perpetual protection. The Senate Judiciary Committee votes on Blanch…

It's been made clear to me that one of the reasons I was hired for this job is my boss read the README files of some of my OSS projects and was impressed at how clear and detailed a writer I am.
Just in case you thought written-English wasn't a useful skill for a developer: It got me this job. Work on your writing skills if you want to survive in tech.
#Programming

dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They point out his leadership in commissioning work from them that led to setting of Greater Manchester’s ambitious, Paris-compliant carbon budget. They say that allowing more oil extraction would betray that…

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They p…

I recently received this sheet of stickers for free in with something I ordered. Would you guess it's AI slop, the work of someone whose first language is not English, or both?

A lot of people forget, or aren't old enough to know, that Google has a track record of forcing things in where they don't belong. Just think of Google . Whole stories have been written about its needless injection everywhere, until its eventual demise.
https://www.theatlantic.com/tech…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/117388090566821742
My prediction: we will see thousands of new LLM written static site generators.
Nobody will care.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/117020271325165593
An additional bonus is young female family member saying "I didn't know it was that easy (I used mistral to help with some of it). Some of the boys in my class have occasionally written apps. But for different stuff". I wonder why in 2026 with all the access we have to coding help, programming and writing apps is *still* seen as boys stuff...

Already posted this years ago, but still keep thinking a lot about this seemingly trivial quote/insight and more generally what it means to build futures, not just the future, whilst choosing different lenses of the past and present as selective references/tools for aiming at, achieving (or even avoiding) said futures:
"Fredric Jameson establishes that in postmodernism we have experienced a weakening sense of historisity such that what is, what was, and what will be all exist as…

Fox Nation debuts Houdini: Back from the Dead on October 14, a three-part series relying entirely on AI-generated imagery; scripts were written by humans (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/fox-nation-ai-generated-harry-…

Fox Nation to Debut AI-Generated ‘Houdini’ Series
Fox Nation has set the three-part series “Houdini: Back from the Dead” for an Oct. 14 debut, resurrecting the illusionist with AI.

What's worse than books written with temperatures expressed in degrees Fahrenheit?
Books written with temperatures expressed in "degrees", and you have to guess the scale from context.

Great piece - interestingly written from a critical, mostly Chinese-focused perspective, which is rare. Doesn't include a single quote from any Indonesian workers
https://grist.org/labor/indonesia-nickel-chinese-workers-energy-transition/

Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.

One resident at the retirement place I work at turned 100, and at his party, my grandmother learned of a nearly 200 year old bible he inherited and only recently physically acquired, elaborately decorated with over 1,000 engravings, a map of Palestine (specifically proudly advertised on the New Testament's intro), genealogies, summaries, interpretations, and even records of the owning family's births, marriages, and deaths, written in impeccably preserved cursive. She got my younger …

@… another conceptual question re: #BSSG
How do I turn a draft into a post?
bssg post allows editing a draft, but doesn't turn in into a published post.
The most simple solution would be to mv from drafts/ to src/.
But that wouldn't…

BSSG/README.md at main
BSSG - BSSG - Bash Static Site Generator. A simple, efficient, and portable SSG written entirely in Bash. Converts Markdown posts/pages into static HTML sites with RSS, sitemaps, tags, archives, and easy CSS theming. Runs on Linux, macOS, and BSDs.

That should probably be written:
no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
-- Larry Wall in <199710161841.LAA13208@wall.org>

Am I losing my mind or is the website and code for littlefedi very much LLM-generated?
https://littlefedi.org/
The website says it's made by hand, but the copyright holder says they didn't write the code, a group of people called the 'little computer people' did, and then trasferred copyrigh…

🧩 Proposed procurement fixes: 20% of tender points for verified open-source contributions under the MEAT framework, a maintenance line item of 2-5% of contract value, and a 30-day rule for contributing non-sensitive public-contract code upstream
🌐 https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/09

@… Right. The “Signature Series” are collections of books curated(allegedly?) by the undersigned.
Both Fowler and Beck have these series of books with their signatures on them. Some written by them, others not, all the ones I’ve read so far very useful and good books.
So I didn’t want to miss out on completing the collections :)

Palantir Technologies,
one of the world’s most influential — and controversial — surveillance tech companies,
🔸enjoyed an effective tax rate of just 1.4% globally last year
🔸while paying no US federal income tax
despite recording substantial profits, an analysis released on Wednesday revealed.
The study, Who Pays for the Surveillance State?, was written by the Center for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR)
in partnership with th…

Palantir: Surveillance State Profiteer Making Billions in Profits, But With an Effective US Tax Rate of... Zero | Common Dreams
"The likes of Palantir need to stump up what's due," said one expert. "Tech giants raking off billions in profit can’t be free to pay what they please."

OK, I've written two new (related) blog posts, one of which is horribly scary. I could be wrong, I hope I am.
#HeatWave
#ThereIsNoEconomyOnADeadPlanet

Extreme Heat
It's a fortnight since I posted my analysis of the Met Office's mid-century temperature projection, and I've been thinking more about it. Apart from immediate human deaths, what are the other consequences of an 'everyone dies' event?

UK startup Books by People gets approval from the UK's IP Office to distribute a thumbprint-style "organic" certification for books proven to be human-written (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/organic-literature-books-by-people-stamp-ai/

Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified ‘Organic’
Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans.

I released WaveLogGoat v0.6.0 this evening.
This release has only one user-visible change: The -version flag also prints the version of Go that it was built with:

$ waveloggoat -version
WaveLogGoat version: 0.6.0
Go version: go1.26.8

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 457017 nodes and 2282055 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…

“Blanche formally withdraws Trump fund plan, ahead of AG confirmation vote”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w05gx32d4o
Meh, Trump hasn’t:
“Trump Threatens to Revive $1.8 Billion Fund for Allies Over Blanche Standoff”

Blanche withdraws Trump fund plan in writing, ahead of AG confirmation vote
Two Republican senators wanted a written guarantee that Trump would not revive a controversial proposal.

An interview with CoreWeave Physical AI SVP Richard Ahlfeld on AI models failing real-world checks, the roles of synthetic data and physical tests, and more (Superintelligence)
https://read.getsuperintel.com/p/the-most-com…

"The most common failure isn't a bad model": CoreWeave's Richard Ahlfeld on physical AI
In a written interview with Superintelligence, Dr. Richard Ahlfeld, SVP of Physical AI at CoreWeave and founder of Monolith, explains why robots fail on the data they never saw and where synthetic data stops being credible. Interview by Kim Isenberg.

finally got one of those author scam emails written by a mega-intelligent mainframe or whatever & feeling both less left out but honestly embarrassed on behalf of whoever programmed the mainframe. it's terrible! it's basically just the jacket copy pasted into an email.

Major military contractor and surveillance giant Palantir
has posted a chilling manifesto on social media that calls for tech companies like itself to play a larger role in a dystopian future
where imperialist and white supremacist powers are unleashed and Americans are increasingly subject to the whims of the surveillance state.
The post contains 22 points it says were summarized from a 2025 book,
"The Technological Republic", written by Palantir co-founder…

Palantir Posts Manifesto Lamenting Post-War “Neutering” of Nazi Germany
The surveillance giant has exploded in value as it’s scored massive contracts from the Trump administration.

🎯 No separate vector database, no replication job, no sync pipeline — one table acts as operational datastore and vector store at once
🔧 Embeddings are written with a normal PutItem call as a list of floats; a vector index is then created on that attribute

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 120833 nodes and 598066 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigrap…

from my link log —
Fixing memory leaks in JavaScript in a web browser.
https://nolanlawson.com/2020/02/19/fixing-memory-leaks-in-web-applications/
saved 2020-02-21

Fixing memory leaks in web applications
Update: I’ve written a tool to automate many of the steps described in this post. Part of the bargain we struck when we switched from building server-rendered websites to client-rendered SPAs…

@… The way these questions are written, I can’t imagine anyone but a lawyer could competently answer them.
That’s a problem if you’re *actually* looking for democratic engagement in the system.

A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment, AI alignment says sandboxes can't fully contain agents (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/…

Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic occasional…

YouTube says it shut down 20 channels for violating its spam policy after a report alleging they used actors and AI-written scripts to push political clickbait (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/03/2026/youtube-cracks-down-on-ghost-creators…

Exclusive: YouTube cracks down on ‘ghost creators’
The enforcement action targeted accounts named in Semafor’s report earlier this week.

Latest post from @… : Two #Israeli soldiers -- from the Most Moral Army in the World -- set out to humiliate a bound prisoner, but succeeded in giving hope to his family.
#Palestine

Destinies Written Beneath the Rubble
The afflicted family, torn by the anxiety of absence and with longing devouring their hearts, gathered around a phone screen, staring at the circulating image 👁️‍🗨️. Amidst the ugliness and cruelty of the scene, the hearts of the father and mother skipped a beat 💓. Their eyes fell upon familiar features.

Tens of thousands of voters at ‘risk of disenfranchisement’ thanks to Trump’s postal service: Analysis
The analysis, written by veteran election reporter Jim Saksa, points to a new USPS policy known as
Regional TransportationOptimization (RTO) that
“will eliminate evening mail pickups from post offices more than 50 miles away from a regional processing facility, most of which are located in major urban areas.”
For people who live in these areas, ballots sent on Elect…

Tens of thousands of voters at ‘risk of disenfranchisement’ thanks to Trump’s postal service: Analysis
“In every state, a day’s delay in delivery means that if mail voters wait until the last day or two before the election to mail their ballot... they could be disenfranchised.”

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

In a letter to the UK chancellor, broadcasters, YouTube, and soccer, rugby, and cricket governing bodies request tax credits to grow coverage of women's sports (Matt Hughes/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/sep

Broadcasters and governing bodies make tax plea for TV coverage of women’s sport
Leading executives and broadcasters have written to the chancellor requesting tax credits to increase TV coverage of women’s sport

The two Republican senators who threatened to block Todd Blanche’s bid to permanently become attorney general announced
they will advance his nomination
after he confirmed in writing that a planned $1.8bn slush fund for Donald Trump’s allies was dead.
The US Senate judiciary committee is due to vote on Tuesday on whether to approve the nomination of Blanche,
who is already acting attorney general,
and send it to the wider Senate for a vote.
Outgoing lawmak…

Republican holdouts say they will back Todd Blanche for attorney general
Move comes after Blanche gives senators written assurance he will drop Trump’s $1.8bn anti-weaponization fund

An "interview" with Walter, an AI agent that has written most of the stories for Alaska News, a website overseen by one human editor and produced in Anchorage (Nathaniel Herz/Anchorage Press)
https://anchoragepress.com/this-ai-age

"Earth is the cradle of humanity
but one cannot live in the cradle forever"
-- taken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Ex…

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Earth is the cradle of humanity but one cannot live in the cradle forevertaken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Trump said Thursday he may temporarily withdraw his nomination of Todd Blanche for attorney general
after two Republican senators, John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina,
said they would not vote to advance Blanche’s nomination until they received written assurances that he would limit some of the terms in the corrupt deal reached between the Department of Justice and President Trump to settle his personal lawsuit against the IRS.
Blanche, currently acting a…